RIM caved to pressure from Saudi Arabia and will be installing servers there that can be monitored by Saudi authorities. Now, India has given RIM until August 31 to make a similar concession or have service suspended. I’m sure RIM will capitulate in order to stay in business. This is an unhappy precedent.

Clearly, we need ubiquitous, secure and easy-to-use peer-to-peer cryptography so that governments have no central actors to put pressure on. Maybe the solution is OpenPGP but it needs to be much easier for people to use.